Buy a stuffed toy. Katherine, I am sorry your mother did that - could you not have moved out? Or made some arrangement? That is a live animal with feelings and this is a very painful surgery - often not treated well for pain -.

not to butt heads again Cyberkitten but i think suggesting a 15yo move out of her mothers house over a declawed cat (or for any reason other than abuse) is highly irresponsible bordering on criminal.